Indonesia’s Ailing Suharto Eludes Court, Anthony Deutsch, AP, 18 January 2008
“There is enough evidence against Suharto to try him under international law for crimes against humanity and genocide”, said Richard Tanter, a professor of international relations at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. “The idea of pursuing old, sick men is unattractive, but the basic deterrence function of such prosecutions largely outweighs” the drawbacks, Tanter countered. “For the ghosts of all the slaughtered and tortured, I’d like to see justice.”